Recent advances in our understanding of the role of meltwater in the Greenland Ice Sheet system

PW Nienow, AJ Sole, DA Slater, TR Cowton - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review This review discusses the role that meltwater plays within
the Greenland ice sheet system. The ice sheet's hydrology is important because it affects …

The influence of hydrology on the dynamics of land-terminating sectors of the Greenland ice sheet

BJ Davison, AJ Sole, SJ Livingstone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coupling between runoff, hydrology, basal motion, and mass loss (“hydrology-dynamics”) is
a critical component of the Greenland Ice Sheet system. Despite considerable research …

The extreme yet transient nature of glacial erosion

H Patton, A Hubbard, J Heyman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ice can sculpt extraordinary landscapes, yet the efficacy of, and controls governing, glacial
erosion on geological timescales remain poorly understood and contended, particularly …

Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

G Lamarche-Gagnon, JL Wadham, B Sherwood Lollar… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Ice sheets are currently ignored in global methane budgets,. Although ice sheets have been
proposed to contain large reserves of methane that may contribute to a rise in atmospheric …

Distributed acoustic sensing of seismic properties in a borehole drilled on a fast‐flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier

AD Booth, P Christoffersen… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a new technology in which seismic energy is
detected, at high spatial and temporal resolution, using the propagation of laser pulses in a …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-satellite (Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8) remote sensing of supraglacial lakes in Greenland

AG Williamson, AF Banwell, IC Willis… - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Remote sensing is commonly used to monitor supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice
Sheet (GrIS); however, most satellite records must trade off higher spatial resolution for …

Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland ice sheet surface

LC Smith, K Yang, LH Pitcher… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Meltwater runoff from the Greenland ice sheet surface influences surface mass balance
(SMB), ice dynamics, and global sea level rise, but is estimated with climate models and …

Assessment of the Greenland ice sheet–atmosphere feedbacks for the next century with a regional atmospheric model coupled to an ice sheet model

S Charbit, A Quiquet, X Fettweis, C Dumas… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
In the context of global warming, growing attention is paid to the evolution of the Greenland
ice sheet (GrIS) and its contribution to sea-level rise at the centennial timescale. Atmosphere …

Bedforms of Thwaites glacier, west antarctica: character and origin

RB Alley, N Holschuh, DR MacAyeal… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Bedforms of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica both record and affect ice flow, as
shown by geophysical data and simple models. Thwaites Glacier flows across the tectonic …

Cascading lake drainage on the Greenland Ice Sheet triggered by tensile shock and fracture

P Christoffersen, M Bougamont, A Hubbard… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet are expanding inland, but the impact on ice
flow is equivocal because interior surface conditions may preclude the transfer of surface …